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PINNED Configure maintenance flyouts
User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?

Instana

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Sensor version and info per API

Currently it is not possible to query the version of a sensor being used by an agent. For many on-prem customers, the ability to get information programatically as seen in the screenshot (Sensor Info via the Agent Dashboard) will help automate tas...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Support the use of kubernetes ServiceAccounts for AWS authorization

Currently the AWS agent can only be deployed on EC2 or ECS. Since we moved to EKS we would like to run the AWS agent inside EKS but without passing credentials to the serivce. The AWS way of doing this would be to assign an IAM role to the Service...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Include feature "zone" or "label" on Serverless entity like AWS S3, fargate, etc

Customer will be able to group entities based on their own zone category. Everyone who monitor AWS resources (except host-based like EC2) will need this. Put "zone" in the configurable params ie for s3 (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observab...
8 months ago in Instana / Common / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Sankey diagram for Custom dashboards

Instana ingests lots of data and we need different ways to represent it, one of the things that can be helpful is to have a Sankey diagram for Custom dashboards.
8 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Dark Mode

Instana needs a dark theme for the browser.
8 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

Improve tracing visibility

Hello, I tried to install UserTracing exit on MQ 9.4.0.0 on linux. Here after is my data chain : MQ 9.4.0.0 -> UserTracing exit -> otelcol -> jaeger backend ->grafana It works, and gives tracing times, but unfortunately, it's not as ad...
4 months ago in Instana / MQ 0 Future consideration

Auto detect JMX values

Requested is a feature where we have auto-discovery and i.e. have an ability to select which Metrics to show/activate JMX params are very difficult to reach (many clicks needed)
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Java / Sensor 1 Future consideration

AIX processes reports "Started At" inaccurately.

AIX processes reports "Started At" inaccurately. If we restart Instana Agent it gets the time from the Instana agent restart as "Started At"
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Azure DDoS Protection event

A customer asked to add Azure DDoS Protection as an event in Instana. The use case is that is there is an DDOS attack and most traffic are blocked but not all. The traffic that gets through might cause some issues on the application and it would b...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Azure / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Alerting for license usage

Due to the new licensing terms and conditions an alert needs to exist which notifies if the current agent usage reaches the amount of purchased licenses. The alert should be customizable with an individual absolute or percentage based threshold.Th...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 1 Future consideration